CHINA: Again, Chao Kung

A "man no country wants," for most of his 60
years, has been Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln. In his day he has
been accused of enough dark deeds to get a whole portfolio of Oppenheim
characters hung. Born a Hungarian Jew. he added the Lincoln to his
name, he said, in admiration for the Great Emancipator. He went to
England, somehow became a Presbyterian missionary,
turned himself into an Anglican curate, made
himself a Quaker when he was secretary to Quaker B. Seebohm Rowntree
(cocoa). Trebitsch Lincoln, before World War I, got himself elected
M. P. for Darlington,...